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ISrUatfS from Sottrital#, dPorefgn an& domestic. 
Injection of Putrid Matter into the Veins. 
BY M. HAMONT, V.S. 
DR. LEURET has shown, by direct experiment, that the blood 
of horses affected with carbuncle* (charbon-anthrax) is capable of 
conveymgthe disease to other horses; and he has solicited atten- 
iion to the analogy existing between the symptoms and lesions 
produced by typhoid diseases in animals, and those consequent 
l ‘h® ..presence of putrid matters in the blood; an observation 
which further experience has only gone to confirm the truth of. 
effect ! 0 ) 6 rrt of t he mean , s best ada P ted to counteract these 
S " ls „ the ob J ect we have ln view in the present essay), 
it will be as well, perhaps, to give some account of the effect's 
produced by injection of such matters. 
On the 5th December, 1828, about noon, was injected into the 
right jugular vein of a lame mule, in full health and very spiritv 
three diachms of sero-purulent matter, extremely foetid, taken 
10 m an ulcei of another horse; the matter being previously dis¬ 
solved in a little warm water. Pulse, at the time, 45. Y 
Immediately after the injection, transitory shivering: two hours 
afterwards he ate heartily, dunged naturally, and appeared quite 
vvelh Next day, although his appetite and spirits continued un¬ 
affected, yet his pulse had risen a little, and was irregular; his 
eyes became full; the membranes heightened in tint; the mouth 
moist. Dec. <th. Slight depression; head hanging down • eyes 
gummy and the conjunctiva infiltrated; respiration a’little 
acceleiated, pulse strengthened, but slow—being only 33 • apne- 
tite and evacuations unaltered.-8f/i. Less irritable than he was • 
still hanging his head, and now staggers in his walk ; pulse 51 ’ 
and intermittent; excrement unchanged in appearance; towards 
evening extreme irritability.-11/A. Lying down; belly, tense • 
respiration embarrassed. All attempts to lift him up proved 
vain; he sank down again. Anus is swollen. Died at 1 o’clock 
in the afternoon. 
Examined, an hour afterwards. — Belly distended; sub-cuta- 
neous capillaries dark and turgid; large ecchymoses inside the 
thigh; the whole muscular system pale, and so soft that the fibres 
are lacerab e with the greatest ease: red spots and patches upon 
various paits of the intestinal tube; villous membrane of the sto¬ 
mach leddened, that of the intestines pale; seven or eight pints 
* What iu this eouiltr >' P a «es for farcy, in a putrid or malignant form. 
